Select all that apply.
what are the general characteristics of a short story?
long descriptive passages
carefully created
multiple subplots
compact
unified
soliloquy

Carefully created, compact, unified..

Explanation:

A short story can be defined as a form of a fictional story that is brief. The length is comparatively short than a novel and longer than a fable, of a short story. A short story usually has one theme and with limited character.

A short story is carefully created as the writer has to speak or present the story in limited words. It is a compact, brief and unified as it works on a limited theme or subject with limited characters and usually a single setting.

Examples of short stories are "The Necklace" written by Guy De Maupassant, "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, etc.

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answer: this is not a good thesis statement because a thesis statement is not supposed to have questions in it. a thesis states your position on your topic. a question cannot state anything because it is not a statement. a question is a great lead in to a thesis, but it can't be the thesis.

it is an infinitive phrase with a subject.